Ben Finney wrote: > Sérgio Monteiro Basto <sergi...@sapo.pt> writes: > >> ./test.py >> moçambique >> moçambique > > In this case your terminal is reporting its encoding to Python, and it's > capable of taking the UTF-8 data that you send to it in both cases. > >> ./test.py > output.txt >> Traceback (most recent call last): >> File "./test.py", line 5, in <module> >> print u >> UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character >> u'\xe7' in position 2: ordinal not in range(128) > > In this case your shell has no preference for the encoding (since you're > redirecting output to a file). >
How I say to python that I want that write in utf-8 to files ? > In the first print statement you specify the encoding UTF-8, which is > capable of encoding the characters. > > In the second print statement you haven't specified any encoding, so the > default ASCII encoding is used. > > > Moral of the tale: Make sure an encoding is specified whenever data > steps between bytes and characters. > >> Don't seems logic, when send things to a file the beaviour change. > > They're different files, which have been opened with different > encodings. If you want a different encoding, you need to specify that. > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
